I appreciated this idea because it is not worth to check spam mail after
certain marks; as it will speed up Spamassassin.

Deepak Mahajan

-----Original Message-----
From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 1:10 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Spamassassin / Spamd speedup

On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 08:26:38PM +0100, Gabriel Maria Plutzar / Alpha
NetWork wrote:
> So it would be good to define a "maximum mail score" - if defined,
scanning
> of a mail is aborted after that score is reached. So, for example a
system,
> which is configured to throw away mails with more than 15 points could
stop
> doing scan after reaching them, eventually skipping costly rbl checks.
[...]
> Perhaps this idea can find a way into future releases

You've described short-circuiting.  There's a discussion and what-not in BZ
3109: http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=3109

RBL checks, btw, are actually really lightweight and can be done in the
background.

:)

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